How to Pick up Dudes
So this is officially the last week of my column. Next week Ill be joined by Lindsey as we launch Cats and Dogs. Ill still be writing some stuff on my own whenever I get that special feeling ya know. Like when Im driving late at night and I can feel the heat comin off the road. Reach down between my legs. Ease the seat back. Ya know. That feeling.
Anyway for this last official installment I wanted to change it up a bit. Ive talked a lot about women on here so I figured Id talk about some of my recent encounters with men. Yea I know. Totally gay.
I never feel like meeting women is difficult. I dont mean to hook up with them or whatever but its just more comfortable for me to speak with a woman Ive never met before then some dude. With women you always have that flirting thing that kinda breaks the ice.
With dudes its different. You have to find a common interest or the conversation gets dull real fast. Here are my two recent experiences.
I get into Berlin Wednesday night at about 9:30. I had looked at a German newspaper in Holland to see what was going on and there was a 60s garage rock night at this club Kaffee Burger near my hotel. I get down to the club and it seems pretty dead. There are two dudes hanging out outside that look kinda like greaser rocker types. I ask them if Im in the right place and they say yea and so I head in. Thats usually about the extent of a normal dude conversation. Its an exchange of information and then you move on. Im by myself though in a city where i dont know anyone so when they walk in I offer to buy them a couple beers for the info. We get to talking and like me theyre record collectors. Serious record collectors though. Long story short I end up hanging out with Joern and Christian for 3 more days while im in Berlin. The last day they take me to a bbq and then drive me to the airport. I could tell you how much of a kickass time we had but it would take forever. Anyway the point is its a rare occasion to meet guys and be friends with them after 3 days. We all kinda talked about it too as if it was a weird phenomenon. Anyway I feel like bros. for life with these 2 dudes.
Now Im in Copenhagen. My friend who lives here is in Helsinki for a medical conference so I find myself alone again in another bar. This dude comes up to me and offers to buy me a drink. What the fuck I say since I met two really rad dudes in Berlin Ill give this guy a shot. We start talking and he tells me hes from Sweden. At this point its also extrememely obvious to me that this dude is gay. He looks about my age though and hes not like a bear or anything so when he comes back 15 minutes later and asks me to join him and his friend I say sure. Im not the least bit uncomfortable having drinks with a couple gay dudes. Usually gay dudes know where a pretty good party is anyway. So its Me Allen the Swedish guy and Flemming his Danish friend. We sit there and drink for about 2 hours and talk about politics, new orleans, sex, life whatever ya know. Normal shit that dudes talk about. Let me just point out that at this time both these guys have said they were gay and Ive said I was straight. So eventually Flemming says he has to go because he has to get up early in the morning. I shake his hand and he says goodbye to Allen.
Immediately Allen turns to me and says You wanna have a 3 way with me and my boyfriend. You got two chicks in your pocket I say. I tell him again that Im straight. This is where it gets funny. He starts fucking questioning me like Im in some sort of homo version of Abu Graib or however you spell that place.
You wanna suck my cock in front of my boyfriend. No
Ok Ill suck your cock and my boyfriend watches. No
Ok you fuck me and my boyfriend watches. No
Ill be gentle really. No dude aint happenin.
You wanna take a walk. No.
Can I get you another beer. Yea you could buy me all the beers in this fuckin place but Im still not gonna fuck you or your boyfriend.
I just wanna lay next to you. Im sure you do.
Finally after I drink the beer that he bought me I tell him I have to go.
You might say that I was asking for it by sitting next to him or accepting free drinks but thats what college dudes say when they date rape somebody. I actually bought some of the beers too but fuckin Denmark is expensive and I aint gonna be buying rounds for gay dudes.
I go outside and throw up in the street. Not from being disgusted or anything but I was just really really drunk. As I walk home I think to myself So thats how chicks must feel.
I also realize how straight I feel.
It feels good.
J.
PS I wish I was lucky as Jed having unusal traveling experiances over in Europe instead of sitting at work pretending I am doing something useful.
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Comment by alex2468 [Member] — 09/12/05 @ 18:27
Jed, you aint missin much in Seattle. The weather is far from spectacular and I just had a flat tire. I will comment however on your little car speel...me and my friends were just talking about that the other day actually. I guess the special feeling is a more common occurance amongst men and women than one might imagine. Even during the day. Must have something to do with all the pot holes and random shit you drive over in this city. Yesterday on our way up to Bellingham, the I-5 was backed up because a box of Christmas ornaments had "come loose" from a sation wagon. Last week on my way to Oregon, I drove over a slab of particle board at 70 mph and and it ripped a hole in my muffler. Today my tire had a screw in it. Lets just say some steady bumps would be really nice.
Comment by Linzalicious [Member] — 09/12/05 @ 18:27
Comment by Linzalicious [Member] — 09/12/05 @ 18:29
Hey, I reckon it's great Jed's meeting guys - regardless of whether they want to fuck him or not. I reckon as we get a bit older, we tend to stick to the same groups of friends. When you're a kid, you make friends all over the place, but good ones are hard to come by later on, especailly as you keep flinging the ones you outgrow over time. So, I'm pretty rapt I have a new girlfriend (I'm most definitely straight) who's just awesome. Being really close to someone you trust is great. I love her. If I was gay, I'd do her.
It's easy meeting girls if you're a girl. The bathroom's the best place. They're usually small,confined spaces (at lots of the dingy bars I go into anyway) and well-lit, so when you're in such close confines, the whole dynamics change and you can easily find yourself talking about the hot guy at the bar, the way the mirror's one of those really fucked ones that makes you look like an alien, the fact that your eye-liner's blunt, and all sorts of other super important things - still, you never know where it'll lead, so I always reckon it's best to keep your options open.
Between you and me (and the entire www - and I don't care 'cos I feel so damn good!)I am currently enjoying a post- coital glow - yeah, maybe you don't wanna know, but, hey, it's too late now.
And it wasn't the Canadian either - it's my part-timer who keeps me entertained between real relationships. Ain't life grand!
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Comment by KZalan [Member] — 09/13/05 @ 00:44
P.S Age is just a number, you have heard it before, and its very true. Most of my friends are younger or way older. However, when I meet a cool 25 year old I am like fuck yea!!!!! I get so excited that I start acting weird and scare them off.....well, that means that they just werent cool enough I guess.......
P.S.S Drunk girls suck......they talk in baby talk and do a bunch of annoying shit...I know this because I used to be one in a past life.
Comment by Linzalicious [Member] — 09/13/05 @ 02:14
well the point is never be a pussy and girls suck dont trust the heffers.
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Comment by icequeen [Member] — 09/13/05 @ 14:01
Ice, maybe I need to start taking lessons from you on how to overcome my pussyness.........Where do I start????
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Comment by Juji [Member] — 09/14/05 @ 01:14
Wow, you guys have had some interesting experiences in Ladies' Rooms! I suppose nothing like that ever happens to me because I'm pretty benign looking. In other words, I don't seem like competition to all the pretty little witches who are usually in there preening. Of course, I don't take any shit from anyone either, so...
You know, I live in L.A., too and I have to say that I've made some really great friends here, both male and female, over the past couple of years and I think several of them are the kind that will last. The majority of them I met online at another site. Only creeps and trolls (or both) seem to message me here.
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Comment by icequeen [Member] — 09/15/05 @ 22:38
Strange but true, the term SPAM comes from a Monty Python skit.
A conversation was drowned out by Monty Python Vikings chanting
SPAM,
SPAM,
SPAM.
Goes without saying that SPAM could've easily ended up being called YADA or BLAH.
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Comment by Linzalicious [Member] — 09/16/05 @ 18:37
Trying to sell stories to picky editors, fretting over sick pussy (as in the cat variety) at the vet, wavering on the edge of telling the unrequited love of my life that it's now or never, living on the blessed edge as always! And keeping an eye on the blog too.
Here's to click clacking around in pretty, feminine Jimmy Choos - and being able to afford them in the not too distant future.
As for the Canadian, I got a nasty dose of foot in mouth diseas, embarrassed myself like an utter fool, and now run away and hide every time I see him - the total antithesis of the fantasy I had in mind. Onward, however, I am not one to take things lying down - unless that's the preferred postion of course! x
Comment by Juji [Member] — 09/16/05 @ 19:03
Comment by Linzalicious [Member] — 09/16/05 @ 19:19
i totally nailed that vixen chick by the way. her husband was stoked because he didn't have to listen to her talk for 5 minutes.
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Comment by icequeen [Member] — 09/16/05 @ 21:06
Welcome back to the good old US - I'm sure you had a grand welcoming committee hehe
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Comment by Linzalicious [Member] — 09/17/05 @ 00:55
btw I figured it out...I'll just retire both men - Love. who needs it anyways its just an over rated emotion - wait is love an emotion or is it a deception - I prefer the latter - ok Ill finish this drink and then retire for hte night but Resolved: Find new Boyfriend - hopefully a foreigner who dosent speak English (it makes it so much easier) or new idea ...Indulge in a great deal of cyber sex... Ok new Idea.. safe sex for the heart - Phone sex with a stranger (cost effective)
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Comment by icequeen [Member] — 09/17/05 @ 15:38
On a brighter note, it's a gorgeous, sunny day in Melbourne and my pussy (of the cat variety) is home and recovering well. Yay!
Icequeen, does either guy know about the other one?
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Comment by Juji [Member] — 09/18/05 @ 17:19
My humanitarian hunk on the other hand travels the globe trying to find a way to end human suffering :) He's my super hero..yet he is so humble and modest and not superficial and pretentious. He's handsome, intelligent, but not grounded as his work takes him away at anytime. He dosent own his home, or a car (because he's never in the US) but he is well respected.
When I'm with him its magical, he makes me laugh, hes so passionate about his cause, we have an innocent relationship where we romp around and have fun yet have intimate moments. Its a predicament ... I cant choose - I wont choose- if I get with either one I may lose the other ...
Comment by icequeen [Member] — 09/18/05 @ 22:24